Miscellaneous Sale: Electrical, Industrial, Scientific Equipment + More!

4459 South Marshfield Avenue,Chicago IL 60609

27 August, 2022

Description

Plant Chicago is partnering with Czubin Industries, a Chicago-based industrial salvage business, to produce our first ever “Miscellaneous Sale!” Through his salvaging of abandoned buildings and shuttered industrial facilities across Illinois, founder Nathan Czuba has rescued countless valuable items and materials—from microscopes to guitar amps to paintings and much more. Stop by the Firehouse on Saturday, August 27th from 11am to 5pm and browse a very diverse selection of rescued items, for sale generally by $1 per pound. This event is a great opportunity for makers, DIYers, roboticists, fermenters, and more. Help us with our goal of diverting 500 pounds of materials! Available items include: Electronic components: resistors, capacitors, relays, antennas, fuses, etc.Scientific equipment: microscopes, water baths, centrifuges, stir plates, hot plates, etc.Metals: coils of spring-hardened steel, plates, rodsRepair components: knobs, small bulbs, hardwareMechanical components: bearings, cam followers, beltsHeating elements and filters: oil, air, waterElectrical supplies: conduit boxes, fittings, couplers, and connectorsChairs, stools, desktops, paintings, prints, and other wall hangingsVintage office supplies for use or as props from the 1970s-1990sElectromagnets, steampunk electric meters, casters, pneumatic cylinders and valvesFiberglass/glass/fabric tapeMotor controllers and starters, electric motors generally under 1HPVintage home decor, clothing, and fabricWe are also providing a collection bin for gently used shipping materials. Have unwanted-but-usable cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, mailers, packing paper or similar materials? Bring them to the Miscellaneous Swap to be reused for local small businesses’ ecommerce. About Czubin Industries: Based on the southwest side of Chicago, Czubin Industries specializes in getting old industrial items and buildings back into use. Many industrial items are simply scrapped to recover the metal, and while that’s good, there’s still a lot of embodied energy and usefulness in these old items. Czubin Industries tries to exploit that gap between scrap prices and remaining usefulness to provide materials for makers, artists, and scientists so that they can pursue their passions and experiments without getting bogged down by the cost of new goods.